The Slade Early Years Centre and Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff are highly successful at ensuring that children are settled, happy and confident at nursery. Children of all ages, including those in receipt of additional funding or with particular vulnerabilities, show very high levels of well-being. There are very strong bonds between children and staff.

• The manager has high expectations for the quality of care and education that children deserve. She leads her team well in an ongoing programme of reviews and improvements in order to maintain and build further on existing good practice. • Children make especially good progress with their physical development and their speaking and listening skills.

Sta...ff understand the importance of these skills and make good use of opportunities to develop children's coordination and to engage children in meaningful conversations. • Staff quickly identify where children may need extra support to reach their potential. They work very well with a wide range of other professionals to help these children to catch up and make progress.

It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not consistently plan precisely for the needs of older, most-able children. There are fewer challenging learning experiences for these children. • Staff miss opportunities to encourage children to begin to recognise and form letters and familiar words, to build further on their developing literacy skills.

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